Section 400.4164. Secure facilities serving juvenile justice youth; reintegration.

A secure facility that serves juvenile justice youth may have policies and procedures used to reintegrate youth who have been placed in seclusion back into the program. A facility shall not use reintegration in conjunction with seclusion that has been used as a sanction for misconduct, if that would extend a resident’s confinement for more hours than the original sanction or more than 72 total hours. The policy for reintegration shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:

(a)     The room may only be used for the time needed to change the behavior compelling its use.

(b)   When a resident has been in seclusion for more than 2 hours, the reintegration plan shall be developed at the supervisory level and shall include all of the following:

(i)    A clear statement of the out-of-control behavior or risk to others that requires continued seclusion.

(ii)   Target behavioral or therapeutic issues that must be resolved.

(iii)     Specific reintegration requirements or behavioral or therapeutic intervention assignments and goals that must be completed while the resident is in the seclusion room, listed in writing, and shared with the resident.

(iv)    If intermittent removal from the seclusion room is required for the resident to work on the specific behavioral/therapeutic intervention goals, the level of restriction from the program and goals for the period of time out of the room must be listed in writing and shared with the resident.

(v)   The strategies staff are to use to aide the resident in resolving the issues requiring seclusion and reintegrating into the program.

(c)   The secure facility serving juvenile justice youth shall comply with R 400.4162.

(d)  A reintegration plan shall not last longer than 72 hours.

History: 2015 AACS.